highborn

1 It is while fishing around in her subconscious that Dr. Bruckner discovers her previous incarnation as Melinda, the highborn daughter of an antislavery crusader in Georgian England.

2 Come-into-my-castle was a game for highborn children, one meant to teach them courtesy, heraldry, and a thing or two about their lord father’s friends and foes.

3 Imagine that ancient Paris had been built on the vertiginous slopes of San Francisco, and you’ll picture Cheesebridge, where the highborn dwell in rancid splendor at the top and society’s dregs live underground.

4 First and foremost, through fine-art portraiture Mr Hussain wanted to shift perceptions of young Muslim men by turning on them the kind of admiring lens usually reserved for the highborn and famous.

5 In his dreams, she was beautiful, and highborn, and her eyes were kind.

6 Modern Jerusalem was spared Disneyfication, first by the highborn culture of British colonialism, with its awe for the city’s antique past, and next by Jordanian paralysis, which froze the Old City as if in amber.

7 Skahaz was convinced that somewhere in Meereen the Sons of the Harpy had a highborn overlord, a secret general commanding an army of shadows.

8 He laughed often, and well, and spoke amiably to highborn lords and lowly serving wehches alike.

9 Historically, British queens have tapped highborn “ladies-in-waiting” to provide company to the monarch and serve as personal assistants and loyal friends.

10 They were men of middling birth, by and large; merchants' sons, lesser lordlings, sometimes even foreigners, but judging from their results, far more able than their highborn predecessors.

11 "Septa Mordane says most . . . most highborn girls have their flowering at twelve or thirteen."

12 "Lady Sansa," he called from the saddle, "surely my sister has asked you to join the other highborn ladies in Maegor's?"

13 Downstream, conunoners and highborn captains alike could see the hot green death swirling toward their rafts and carracks and ferries, borne on the current of the Blackwater.

14 Nannette, with her plain, angular face and hawklike eyes, wasn’t beautiful or highborn.

15 Why does Desdemona marry Othello, a much-older general who is battle-scarred and — because he is Black and she is white — sure to shock her highborn Venetian family?

16 The British nobles are regarded as not only being highborn with family status, but also having noble quality and outstanding ability of leadership, so they are considered as social elitists.

英国贵族不仅被认为有高贵的血统和门第，而且具备高贵的品质和杰出的领导才能，因此被视为社会的精英。

17 You need grains of life for an ethical dilemma, you need an understanding of work and people, whether in 90 minutes of trash or something more highborn.

18 Many highborn youths and maidens serve for a few years after their flowerings, to honor the gods.”

19 It is a play that blows hot and cold, with its twin settings of icy Sicilia and sunny Bohemia, its highborn kings and rustic shepherds, its extremes of crime and punishment, loss and redemption.

20 Satin was all grace, dancing with three serving girls in turn but never presuming to approach a highborn lady.

1 出身高贵

highbred of good birth gently gentility gentilitial gentle generous gent ingenuous wellborn gentlehood gentrice generosity

2 出身高贵的

highbred patrician wellborn gentilitial gentle generous gent ingenuous

3 出身名门的

gentle wellborn of gentle birth

4 名门望族

gentility